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Indian IT giant Infosys on Thursday posted a 33-percent rise in its quarterly profit, but warned of a slowdown and weak client spending due to global uncertainty and the European debt crisis. http://phys.org/news245561549.html Technology Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:10:01 EST news245561549 Netflix raised $400 million Monday as the video subscription service tries to recover from a customer backlash that has battered its stock and tarnished its brand. http://phys.org/news241157789.html Technology Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:16:46 EST news241157789 Apple's new iPhone 4S made glitzy and chaotic debuts in three new Asian markets on Friday, with customers and profiteers queuing for up to a week to get their hands on the popular gadget. http://phys.org/news240237553.html Electronics Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:10:02 EST news240237553 The online "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed on Wednesday to have published the Internet Protocol addresses of nearly 200 visitors to child pornography forums. http://phys.org/news239461895.html Technology Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:11:48 EST news239461895 Sony said its next-generation PlayStation Vita games console will be released in the United States and Latin America on February 22. http://phys.org/news238214911.html Electronics Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:00:03 EST news238214911 Shares in India's biggest software exporter TCS plunged nearly eight percent on Tuesday, a day after the firm posted earnings figures that fell short of market expectations. http://phys.org/news238149694.html Technology Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:41:43 EST news238149694 The longest BlackBerry outage in many years left customers outraged this week, threatening to cost the granddaddy of all smartphones more business when it's already struggling to keep up in a crowded marketplace. http://phys.org/news237801801.html Technology Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:03:35 EST news237801801 Brazil is in negotiations with Taiwan IT giant Foxconn to open two factories to manufacture touch screens in a multi-billion dollar project, a top Brazilian official said Thursday. http://phys.org/news237745516.html Technology Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:25:25 EST news237745516 BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. http://phys.org/news237627270.html Technology Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:34:36 EST news237627270 Fraud in online commerce and theft of confidential data, known as phishing, at banks in Latin America together top 93 billion dollars in yearly losses, an IT conference heard Wednesday. http://phys.org/news237088322.html Technology Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:52:11 EST news237088322 The biggest video game fair in Latin American opened its doors Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, with organizers expecting some 60,000 visitors and an ever-increasing number of women gamers. http://phys.org/news237049906.html Technology Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:12:09 EST news237049906 Microsoft has opened its first technology center in Latin America and promised to invest $690 million (522 million euros) in Mexico in the next year. http://phys.org/news237040335.html Technology Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:32:24 EST news237040335 Latin America's first big solar car competition has a winner: a Chilean entry named Intikalpa sped to success in the Atacama Solar Challenge. http://phys.org/news236833274.html Technology Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:20:01 EST news236833274 (AP) -- Netflix launched its movie and TV streaming service in Brazil on Monday, the beachhead for a push into Latin America that is seen as key to the company's continued growth after recent setbacks in the United States. http://phys.org/news234636069.html Technology Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:41:26 EST news234636069 US video giant Netflix on Monday announced the launch of its television and movie streaming service to Latin America and the Caribbean. http://phys.org/news234461595.html Technology Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:13:24 EST news234461595 Enel Green Power, the renewable energy arm of Italian giant Enel, has won three wind farm projects totalling 193 megawatts in Brazil's 2011 New Energy Auction, the company said in a statement Friday. http://phys.org/news232976573.html Technology Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:43:08 EST news232976573 Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL), one of the world's busiest international airports is also the most fiscally efficient, says an aviation think-tank based at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. http://phys.org/news232205347.html Other Sciences Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:29:35 EST news232205347 New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are still America's largest metropolitan areas, but none of the nation's 366 metropolitan areas added more people during the past decade than Houston. Based on a new extensive analysis of the 2000 and 2010 censuses by Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research, the Greater Houston metropolitan area grew by a whopping 1.2 million people and increased by more than 123,000 per year over the decade. http://phys.org/news229705837.html Other Sciences Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:10:58 EST news229705837 (AP) -- Netflix is expanding its movie and TV show streaming service into 43 countries throughout Latin America in the online movie rental company's largest international expansion yet. http://phys.org/news229081145.html Technology Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:39:18 EST news229081145 A tropical forest is easy to cut down, but getting it back is another story. In a special issue of the journal Forest Ecology and Management, leading researchers at the Smithsonian in Panama and across Latin America offer new insights on reforestation based on 20 years of research. http://phys.org/news224855928.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 May 2011 12:59:14 EST news224855928 The world's big cities are already bursting at the seams but are set to grow even larger, with experts predicting that some 70 per cent of the world's population will be urban by 2050. http://phys.org/news219039698.html Space & Earth Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:22:08 EST news219039698 Promising advances have been made in the testing of possible vaccines to prevent the mosquito-borne dengue virus, which kills 25,000 people every year, researchers said Thursday. http://phys.org/news217189434.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:40:01 EST news217189434 Indian tech giant Infosys on Thursday posted a disappointing 14.1 percent rise in consolidated net profit, and warned that future growth could be hurt if recovery in developed markets weakens. http://phys.org/news214121039.html Technology Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:04:09 EST news214121039 (AP) -- A disease whose progression and symptoms seem straight out of a horror movie but which can be treated has killed at least 20 Ugandans and sickened more than 20,000 in just two months. http://phys.org/news206966515.html Medicine & Health Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:10:01 EST news206966515 A comprehensive Argentinean epidemiological study reveals the staggering costs of osteoporosis in the country. http://phys.org/news198320598.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:30:01 EST news198320598 (AP) -- The Portuguese government used its special voting rights Wednesday to block Telefonica's euro7.15 billion ($8.72 billion) bid to buy Portugal Telecom's stake in Brazil's leading cell phone company Vivo. http://phys.org/news197101355.html Technology Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:22:55 EST news197101355 Faith-based organizations such as churches and religious relief and development groups can play an important role in the response to HIV and AIDS in Central America, according to a new RAND Corporation report. http://phys.org/news194614912.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:10:01 EST news194614912 The availability of more affordable drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that would help countless people worldwide is the foremost benefit expected from a growing number of collaborations between biotech firms in developing countries, according to a study to be published Mon. May 12 in the UK journal Nature Biotechnology. http://phys.org/news192713959.html Biology Mon, 10 May 2010 14:00:02 EST news192713959 A new study from researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center found that the imprint of European colonialism and imperialism is evident in the genetic makeup of today's Hispanic/Latino American populations. Scientists discovered that Europeans, Native Americans, as well as West Africans brought to the U.S. and Latin America by the trans-Atlantic slave trade, have influenced the genes of the current Hispanic/Latino populations. However, a large variation in genes among individuals within each population were still found to exist. http://phys.org/news192117395.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 May 2010 15:20:08 EST news192117395 (AP) -- Nokia Corp.'s first-quarter net profit surged to euro349 million ($467 million) from euro122 million a year earlier, with strong growth in smart phone sales and 3 percent growth in total revenue, the company said Thursday. http://phys.org/news191149691.html Technology Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:09:01 EST news191149691